Christian Group Complains After School Board Adopts Policy to Help Transgender Students

[cleanhippie]

Of COURSE they did... That's what they do!

A district in my area did something really amazing earlier this week. On Monday, the East Aurora Board of Education voted — unanimously — to make things better for transgender students:

The new policy specifically states that transgendered and gender nonconforming students have the right use the restroom that corresponds to their gender-related identity that is consistently asserted at school. The student has the right to be addressed by the name they want to be called, too.

“A court-ordered name or gender change is not required, and the student needs not change his or her official records,” the policy states.

“In no case shall a transgender student be required to use a locker room that conflicts with the student’s gender-related identity,” the policy reads.

Doesn’t seem like a big deal at all… so, as you might expect, the conservative Christian group Illinois Family Institute is freaking out, urging parents to pull their kids out of the public school district before, I don’t know, the transgender kids smile and ruin Jesus for everybody?

The school board is now imposing non-objective, “progressive” moral, philosophical, and political beliefs — not facts — about gender confusion on the entire school. This feckless school board has made a decision to accommodate, not the needs of gender-confused teens, but their disordered desires and the desires of gender/sexuality anarchists who exploit public education for their perverse ends.

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Gender confusion affects approximately .003 percent of males and .0001 percent of females. Aurora East High School is now accommodating the disordered impulses and unproven beliefs of a statistically miniscule segment of their population and in so doing ignores the beliefs of the majority. Some would argue that this policy also reflects a gross distortion of compassion and profound ignorance about what truly helps the few students who suffer from gender dysphoria or Gender Identity Disorder.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/10/17/christian-group-complains-after-school-board-adopts-policy-to-help-transgender-students/

I just LOVE me some christian compassion in the morning. It really makes my day.

[Angry Dragon]

1. If Christians were not so confused they would only have one religion

Talk about confusing

[patrice]

2. Makes me wonder what members of the Family Institute do in the restroom that makes them think this

is a problem.

[Iggo]

3. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait just a damned minute!

Did he say "unproven beliefs"?

[cleanhippie]

4. Oh yes, he certainly did.

[The Magistrate]

9. And That, Sir, Makes This Truly Special....

[JNelson6563]

10. Exceeds daily maximum allowance

of irony.

[AlbertCat]

5. Gender confusion affects approximately .003 percent of males and .0001 percent of females.

So it's a FUCKING MAJOR THREAT! AAAAYYYIIIII!

I mean, what if one of their kids realizes these people EXIST????

[dimbear]

6. Perhaps Sainte Wilgefortis can intercede for these children. n/t

[onager]

7. Human Nature 1, Religion 0 (as usual)

...This derives from a legend, also attached to the Volto Santo of Lucca, of a silver shoe with which the statue (of Wilgefortis) had been clothed dropping spontaneously at the feet of a poor pilgrim (eventually pilgrims made off with so much of the Volto Santo that the present replacement was needed).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilgefortis

Reminds me of the inspirational, multilingual signs outside Notre Dame de Paris: Beware of pickpockets.

And long as I'm here...just WHO T.F. does the demographics web page for Illinois?

The maximum representation by number of believers of a religion in 2000 was the Roman Catholic Church with 3,874,933 followers, the United Methodist Church with 365,182 followers, the Southern Baptist Convention with 305,838 followers, and Judaism with 270,000 followers.

Illinois had significantly contributed to the initial Latter Day Saint Movement, along with Nauvoo, Illinois fitting as meeting place for a time during the 19th Century. The major cult, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also vow of the maximum number of followers in Illinois at 55,460.

Yes, that's a direct quote. My brain hurts...

http://www.altiusdirectory.com/Travel/illinois-demographics.php

[dimbear]

8. That writer needs to spring for a newer dictionary.

One where cult isn't ever a good thing.

[uriel1972]

11. Yes they know what truly helps transgender people

Is a thumping great dose of JEEESUS! Coupled with an insane amount of soul destroying repression and self-hatred